Today’s picture: the school field.
Now the evenings are getting a bit lighter I can head to the school field at the end of the day for a run. Tonight: 8 laps.
Project365 #40
Tag: running
Book 3 of 2026 📚
‘And So I Run’ by Jamie Doward.
A running book – first one of the year.
I wasn’t really enjoying this book too much at the start, it was a bit depressing and a bit repetitive. The simplified summary is the author is trying to run a sub-3 hour marathon. Although it is much more than that, it follows his journey as he uses running as an escape from life, his guilt, his grief, his despair, finding a way through a life that is unravelling.
He talks a lot about his life and about life and ‘shameless posturing of our global leaders when everything is going to shit’ and how they have a ‘complete lack of empathy for normal people, a collective failure to act in an era of existential crisis’. Which, of course, I couldn’t agree more.
But about running, he also says:
These days I run to feel powerful in an era when it is all too easy to feel powerless. I run because I believe running is a supreme of of defiance, a refusal to obey norms and conventions. To run is to fight.
Project365 #34
It was a full on day at school. I had a free but that was taken up with marking. So come the end of the day it was 40 min on the treadmill listening to Charlton Live podcast. Felt good.
Janathon Day 1
It was blowing a hooligan this morning, therefore day 1 of Janathon was completed in the calm of the garage and on the treadmill.
35 mins. 3.28 miles.
Strava said it was a ‘relaxed effort’ with an average heart rate of 125bpm. I’m going to keep an eye on these things this year.
They also awarded me a badge:
I’m also going to be trying out a few new podcasts over the course of the month, ideally something running related. My go to running podcast is ‘Running Commentary’, but today I went with ‘That’s Runnable’. It was a second and final attempt to see if it’s something I could listen to. It’s not. The search continues…
After abandoning the podcast halfway through run I went for music: Bastille and the album ‘Doom Days’.
Day 1. Done.
#project365 #78
12 mile run at Rutland Water, including the peninsula. I was initially planning on doing a few more miles but forgot my headtorch and didn’t fancy running in the pitch black, especially with the threat of falling in the reservoir very real.
#project365 #74
The dreaded ‘Red Nose Day’ at school today. Cue hundreds of crazy kids in non-school uniform running around like it’s Christmas.
It’s days like today when I am thankful that I like to run. I managed a trip to the gym at the end of the day for an hour or so on the treadmill – warm up and cool down with 5 miles in the middle – it was good to clear the head.
It was also my last run as a 48 year old – tomorrow’s my birthday! Woop woop!
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